Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 144 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request a study of the use of trailer parks as a possible option for solving Hawaii's affordable housing crisis.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and three individuals. The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands offered comments.

Your Committees find that this measure calls for a comprehensive study on the issue whether manufactured housing would be a productive and feasible means to help alleviate the crisis that Hawaii now faces. The answers determined in the study would enable the Legislature to embrace or reject the concept based upon the facts.

Your Committees have amended the measure to:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 144, as amended herein, recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 144, S.D. 1.